Peter Andreas
John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science
Areas of Interest: Transnational crime and crime control, borders and border security, immigration and drug control policy.
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Watson Faculty Whose Courses Fulfill IR Requirements
For a complete list of courses offered through departments outside of Watson please see the IR courses page.
John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science
Areas of Interest: Transnational crime and crime control, borders and border security, immigration and drug control policy.
Security Track Director, Undergraduate International and Public Affairs Concentration
Director, International Relations Concentration
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: International security, international relations theory, asymmetric conflict theory, insurgency/counterinsurgency, military intervention, cyber security strategy and policy, sex (gender) and war. Regional areas of expertise include: the Russian Federation (foreign policy, grand strategy, military), Afghanistan, and Norwegian and British defense and foreign policy.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: US Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, International Development Cooperation, Congressional War Powers, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Transitions, Europe and Africa.
Charles Evans Hughes 1881 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Labor, environment, commodities, agriculture, plantations, ethical trade, gender, development, Himalayas, India, environmental justice, ethics.
Arkadij Eisler Goldman Sachs Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Peacekeeping, statebuilding, security sector reform, quantitative and experimental methods.
Director of the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Political Economy and finance.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Diplomacy, foreign policy, China, South Asia.
Director of Climate Solutions Lab
Richard Holbrooke Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: International order; energy; climate change; oil politics; causes of war
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
Areas of Interest: Digital policy, cybersecurity, privacy and civil liberties, intelligence, open government and information sharing, U.S. national security policy process.
Senior Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, transitions theory, Latin American politics, political representation and electoral reform.
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Development, globalization, social theory, democratization, governance, urban transformation.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Latin American economic development, international competitiveness and development strategy.
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Globalizing knowledge and universities, social movements, cultural politics and social change in Europe and Eurasia, cultural politics and energy security in Europe and Eurasia.
Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science
Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies
Areas of Interest: Italian politics and society, role of symbolism and ritual in politics, history of Vatican relations with the Italian state, modern history of anti-Semitism, the history of the family in Europe.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: American foreign policy; US intervention; Latin America, Turkey, Iran, Rwanda.
Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Services, Policy & Practice
Areas of Interest: Disasters, emerging infectious diseases, humanitarian emergencies, human rights.
Provost, Brown University
Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Globalization and labor standards, global supply chains, sustainability.
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of International Studies
Professor of Anthropology
Areas of Interest: War and security, militarization, peacekeeping, automobility, photographic representation, gender.
Director of Postdoctoral Program
David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations
Areas of Interest: International relations, American Foreign and Defense Policy, psychological aspects of decision-making, especially risk taking and emotion, gender, biological and genetic aspects of political attitudes and preferences, social identity, experiments, intelligence, cyber
IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Development economics, labor economics, public economics.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Cultural and political anthropology, race/ethnicity, gender, (im)migration, citizenship, transnationalism, social movements, Latina/o mixed-status families, U.S., Mexico.
Interim Director of the Graduate Program in Development
Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, political economy of development, social welfare, identity politics including ethnic politics and nationalism, and gender politics, politics of South Asia and East Asia.
Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. ’32 Professor of International Studies
Professor of Anthropology
Director of the Africa Initiative
Areas of Interest: Nigeria, Africa, development, medical anthropology, gender, population processes, infrastructure, corruption
Howard R. Swearer Director of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Dean's Professor of China Studies
Professor of Political Science
Director of the China Initiative
Areas of Interest: Political economy of contemporary China, political economy of global production and innovation, political economy of energy.
Director of the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences
Areas of Interest: lndian politics, political economy of development, ethnic conflict and nationalism.
Interim Director of the Watson Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Professor of International and Public Affairs (Research)
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, political economy of Europe, comparative financial regulation, ideology and party politics in France and Germany.